{"id":15752,"date":"2013-01-16T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=15752"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:46:28","slug":"pac-man-face-stabbing-and-no-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/entertainment\/pac-man-face-stabbing-and-no-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man, Face Stabbing, And No Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/stabyourself.net\/\">Stabyourself.net<\/a> released <em style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stabyourself.net\/notpacman\/\">Not Pacman<\/a><\/em>, a free recreation of <em style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Pac-Man<\/em> without physics. I know, I know. Where are the physics in <em style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Pac-Man<\/em> to begin with? Hidden in plain sight and glaringly obvious when there aren&#8217;t any.<\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bJWJt_lgd4g&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>What makes the game so addictive, and not just a rehash, are the new controls. You control the game with either a mouse, keyboard, steering wheel, or joy stick, and\u00a0the level itself rotates, jostling and moving the characters housed within the level.\u00a0Power pellets are still in the game, but they don&#8217;t make it much easier. Controlling the ghosts\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 13px;\">and\u00a0<\/em>Pacman proves\u00a0extraordinarily\u00a0hectic. Remember that for every move you make with your yellow champion, three ghosts make theirs. It&#8217;s important to calmly observe the safest path, but the ghosts can clump up in a corridor while Pacman has free reign until the screen rotates enough to force them free.<\/p>\n<p>The game is free to download <a href=\"http:\/\/stabyourself.net\/\">here<\/a>, and boasts\u00a0one of the handiest &#8220;advanced multi-data scoring system optimized for professional competitive gaming events.&#8221; That&#8217;s right, you and your friends can compare high scores!\u00a0<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stabyourself.net released Not Pacman, a free recreation of Pac-Man without physics. I know, I know. Where are the physics in Pac-Man to begin with? Hidden in plain sight and glaringly obvious when there aren&#8217;t any. [yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bJWJt_lgd4g&#8217;] What makes the game so addictive, and not just a rehash, are the new controls. You control the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3062,2221,1917],"tags":[2041,3774,2230,3773,3751,3775,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15792,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions\/15792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}